$14,000 raised for Bellefontaine woman charged with stealing change

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Oct 24, 2013 at 12:01 AMOct 24, 2013 at 8:14 AM

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio - More than $14,000 has been donated online to help a western Ohio woman who said she stole change from a courthouse fountain to buy food and was charged with petty theft, according to media reports.

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio— More than $14,000 has been donated online to help a western Ohio woman who said she stole change from a courthouse fountain to buy food and was charged with petty theft, according to media reports.

Police allege that Deirdre Romine took $2.87 from a fountain at the Logan County Courthouse in Bellefontaine this month.

Romine has said she didn’t think the money belonged to anyone and she was jobless and trying to feed herself and her cats.